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A long-delayed $19.1 billion disaster relief package will be held up awhile longer after a lone House Republican blocked its passage on Friday. The Senate had passed the legislation on Thursday in an...

Congress appropriated $1.57 billion to build barriers along the border with Mexico in 2018, and according to a recent court filing, that money has produced a total of 1.7 miles of fencing so far. The...

Infrastructure was supposed to be one of the few areas with some potential for bipartisan action before the 2020 election. So much for that. Any potential now appears to be all but extinguished after...

Congressional leaders and top Trump administration officials met Tuesday to discuss a two-year budget agreement to avoid $126 billion in automatic spending cuts set to take effect in fiscal 2020, and...

President Trump is scheduled to meet with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday to discuss how to pay for a potential infrastructure package of $1 trillion...

The IRS audited just 892,000 individual tax returns last year, for an audit rate of 0.59%, the IRS said Monday. That marks the seventh year in a row that the audit rate has fallen. The IRS Data Book...